The genius and imagination I have seen with many housing designs are insanely creative and breathtaking.
Meanwhile, mine looks like a one room, rundown shack on the outskirts of New Orleans-only not that Fancy
I was so excited for PH but seeing what others have down with those has shown me for what I am: basic
I may as well by a girl named “Buffy” at Starbucks sharing a Pumpkin Spice Latte with a miniature Pomeranian named “Bella”
It hurts to admit but according to my dad, who’s been on the wagon for years, admitting a problem is the first step. Unfortunately he rode off on that wagon three years ago and I have’t seen him since so he’s not around to help me work through the acceptance phase; so you guys have to help me through it
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Well, you have to plan more, almost nobody can just sit down and make something amazing. Tackle big picture before small picture.
Do you want reading nooks, or a loft? A whole library? How many bedrooms do you want? Do you want different levels? Do you want hallways? Then you make a floorplan where you put the empty rooms using the architect mode (option 5 inside the house), then fill them with decorations later on.
Creativity usually comes when you’re trying to solve problems, no need to expect yourself to do that when you don’t know what problem you want to solve yet.
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Or, tackle the small picture first 
Change the house roof style or color, add a chimney or a tower. Add a few windows to the outside. Make a little garden under one of the windows of the house. Start little and work up. It is ok to look at areas in the game, or online for inspiration that you can copy. Maybe do your own spin on.
A cozy cottage with one or two room is 100% ok. It should simply be something you enjoy doing and feel comfy relaxing your char in.
This one is Beta I think.
My Live house is almost the same but I have a different windmill and the entry gate area has an arch with grapes and flowers added.
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I’ve got 5 rooms almost fully decked out. But the things I’m most pleased with myself for are little touches not the grand overall design. Like a rad enchanting table off in a corner. Gold/blue/purple/voidy purple lighting glows sneakily applied to bookcases to hint at the nature of that set of books.
You’d instantly know most of the items being used, but the precise arrangement took time and detail, that makes such little things stand out.
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Would that happen to be the Arathi Trellis we get from Priory?
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My brain always shuts down when changes this big drop in game. It works differently–and sometimes the complete opposite way with some-but my ADHD brain gets overwhelmed and I get hit with the “ADHD Paralysis”.
I can generally start processing and slowing things down but it’s exactly that way I have to approach it when my brain calms down enough to let me. One Decor, one change at a time
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YES!!! I added some ivy to it as well.
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Also be aware that you will never build a grand cathedral in one try. Put some stuff together, take note of what’s working. Look through the catalog to see what fits with that better, go get those items. Tear down big chunks and redo it with the new stuff.
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Give yourself time. Some players have been doing housing in other games for many years now and have been chomping at the bit for housing to finally come to wow. They are housing superusers.
I’m going slow on both houses especially the horde one. Just have fun with it.
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I am not an artist and I will never match the creations of people who are.
(I felt I had to get that out of the way quickly to be able to get on with having fun with housing)
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Comparison is the thief of joy, or whatever the saying is.
Make the house you like, don’t worry about the house someone else makes. (You can always just borrow their ideas too! :3)
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What’s killing my efforts to make a truly spectacular house is that I have to keep buying more furnishings/farming more dungeons for furnishings, etc…
I get that this is supposed to be a gold sink, a time sink, etc… but it REALLY kills the creative flow when I’ve got an idea going and suddenly I’m out of the ONE furnishing I’ve been using or really need to continue. I go get it, and I’m so frustrated by the loss of time that I’ve already lost that spark of inspiration and just give up.
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For players like yourself, wait until its out of EA. We are getting thousands of Decor on Midnight launch, and I have no doubt they are going to add more and more to old world content.
Now is a great time to work on old stuff.
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I’m 100% going to steal a bunch of these ideas floating around in about a year or two.
Painting along with Bob Ross is still painting. But until then my cozy cottage will manage.
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Its not that there isn’t enough variety, it’s that its limited.
I’d much rather, “Hey, you got this decor once! You can now use it infinitely without having to get copies of it to use it more than once!”
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Yea, They need to put in some vendors for ease of access.
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Or just let us buy it from our catalogue once we unlock it. Particularly dungeon items. Shadowfang Keep isn’t exactly difficult to solo, but its tedious to run the whole damned dungeon, waiting for NPCs to unlock the next section, just to get a rug over and over and over and over and over and…
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Yea I was about to edit my post to include that, that would be the best option.
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Nothing wrong with simplicity! And you have all the time to tackle more complex ideas!
I recently made a goblin Winter Veil tree that I’m happy with! Not really extreme but I like how it looks!
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there’s nothing wrong with being… “basic”… as you say. take a look at other peoples’ housing and glean some ideas. if you see something you like, STEAL it. no joke. if they don’t want you stealing, then they’d set their housing to private. tweak the decor to your liking, ofc.
OP, why not make a basic pumpkin spice latte style house then? make a barista and a espresso bar. hell, make a cafe!